ALTERNATION Closes Year Among Top Second-Crop Sires
At the end of 2018, ALTERNATION finished as the Co-Leading Second-Crop Kentucky Sire with two Graded stakes winners and Co-Second-Leading Sire with FIVE Blacktype winners. Among them were Graded winners SERENGETI EMPRESS, a 2-year-old filly who won the Pocahontas S.-G2 by a recording-setting 19 1/2 lengths and the Ellis Park Debutante S. by 13 1/2 […]
Horse Gossip 1-11-18
Catch up on all the recent Pin Oak farm news including race results, upcoming races, stallion news, broodmare news, trainers’ news and weekend post times.
BROKEN VOW’s Grade 1 Performer BEST PERFORMANCE Brings $560,000 at Keeneland January
Cataloged as a racing/broodmare prospect, the just turned 4-year-old filly BEST PERFORMANCE was purchased by Three Chimneys Farm for $560,000, the second highest price on day two of the annual Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sales. “She is by a stallion we have a lot of respect for,” said Chris Baker, COO of Three […]
Horse Gossip 1-4-18
Catch up on all the recent Pin Oak farm news including race results, upcoming races, stallion news, broodmare news, trainers’ news and weekend post times.
Horse Gossip 12-21-18
Catch up on all the recent Pin Oak farm news including race results, upcoming races, stallion news, broodmare news, trainers’ news and weekend post times.
2YO COMBINATION Places in Gulfstream’s Buffalo Man S. in Second Start
Coming off a 5 3/4-length Maiden Special Weight win in his debut at Gulfstream Park West in mid-October (pictured), COMBINATION jumped right into stakes competition and placed in Gulfstream Park’s six-furlong Buffalo Man S., finishing four lengths in front of the next horse. The 2-year-old colt from the second crop of ALTERNATION became his sire’s […]
2YO VOW TO RECOVER Rallies to Place in Gulfstream’s Wait a While S.
Stakes winner last time out in her third start, VOW TO RECOVER recovered from some traffic problems to close and place in Gulfstream Park’s Wait a While S. The 2-year-old filly by BROKEN VOW raced in mid-pack early in a field of ten racing a mile on the turf. VOW TO RECOVER encountered traffic problems […]
ELLANATION Becomes 10th Second-Crop 2YO Winner
After two runner-up performances in her last two starts, ELLANATION fought through the stretch to get the win at Laurel Park. The 2-year-old filly from the second crop of ALTERNATION broke well from the inside post to sit second in this eight-horse field racing six furlongs. She began to move closer to the leader on […]
LIFE IN SHAMBLES Prevails in G3 Fall Highweight
Coming off a win at Belmont Park last out in which he ran just 1/5 second off a nine-year-old, 6 1/2-furlong track record, LIFE IN SHAMBLES continued his winning ways defeating several multiple stakes winners to take the $200,000 Fall Highweight H.-G3 by 3/4 length. The hard-knocking son of BROKEN VOW began his rally on […]
BROKEN VOW Mares Sought After at Keeneland November
The first full week of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale saw mares by BROKEN VOW bring top dollar in the ring. Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm went to $575,000 on the first day to purchase the young mare, INTERRUPTED. Hip 93 is a multiple stakes-winning, graded-placed earner of $251,005 and a half-sister to GSW/Millionaire […]
2YO VOW TO RECOVER Now Two for Three After Stakes Win
Coming off a Maiden Special Weight score last out in her second start, VOW TO RECOVER drove past the frontrunner in mid-stretch to win the Juvenile Fillies Turf S. by 1/2 length. The 2-year-old filly by BROKEN VOW was in range only 3 1/2 lengths back after the first half going a mile at Gulfstream […]
Two New Winners and a Repeat Winner
Two-year-old ALTERNATIVE SLEW won her second start taking a six-furlong Maiden Special Weight by 1/2 length. The daughter from the second crop of ALTERNATION rallied on the turn, was three wide into the stretch and put in a strong run down the lane to get the win at Remington Park. She became his ninth 2YO […]